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If your sciatic nerve becomes inflamed, the condition is known as sciatica (pronounced si-ad'-i-ka).The pain can be extreme! It often follows the route of your guts - down the back of your leg, foot, ankle, and toes - but it may also radiate to your back! Together with burning, sharp pains, you might also feel nerve sensations like pins-and-needles, tingling, prickling, crawling sensations, or tenderness...

Back pain is an issue many people the world over often come to suffer to some degree.For some it's a source of constant pain and distress, while for others it's a problem which comes and goes without a lot of suffering.One of the biggest problems is trying to convince your physician just how much pain you're in, and in case you've got a prolapsed disc impinging on your sciatic nerve it might take weeks or months until it's correctly diagnosed...